33 Quotes by Alexander Kotov

The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn’t the best one than to play without a plan at all. The worst thing is to wander about aimlessly.

Experience and the constant analysis of the most varied positions builds up a store of knowledge in a player’s mind enabling him often at a glance to assess this or that position.

Here is a definition which correctly reflects the course of thought and action of a grandmaster: – The plan in a game of chess is the sum total of successive strategical operations which are each carried out according to separate ideas arising from the demands of the position.

I cannot think that a player genuinely loving the game can get pleasure just from the number of points scored no matter how impressive the total. I will not speak of myself, but for the masters of the older generation, from whose games we learned, the aesthetic side was the most important. -.

All candidate moves should be identified at once and listed in one’s head. This job cannot be done piecemeal, by first examining one move and then look at another.

When you have finished analyzing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first of all write the move down on your score sheet, before you play it.

Time trouble is blunder time.